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  "legislation": "uksi/1987/1303",
  "legislation_title": "The Meat and Livestock Commission Levy Scheme (Confirmation) Order 1987",
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  "number": "2",
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  "text": "In this Scheme, except where the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them, namely:—\n“the Commission” means the Meat and Livestock Commission established under Part I of the Agriculture Act 1967;\n“deadweight” means in relation to calves the weight of the carcase after the head, skin and tail and the offal (except the kidneys) have been removed;\n“exporter” means any person engaged in the production, marketing or distribution of livestock whose business includes the export of livestock;\n“general expenses” means expenses incurred by the Commission other than species promotion expenses;\n“livestock” means cattle, sheep and pigs;\n“livestock product” has the meaning assigned thereto by section 25(2) of the said Act;\n“slaughterer” means any person (including a local authority) having the control and management of a slaughterhouse in which livestock are slaughtered and includes a local authority providing slaughterhouse facilities under Part I of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974 or Part II of the Slaughterhouses Act 1954, or providing any similar facilities under any local enactment;\n“slaughterhouse” has, in England and Wales, the meaning given by section 34 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1974 and, in Scotland, the meaning given by section 16 of the Slaughterhouses Act 1954;\n“species promotion expenses” means expenses incurred in the exercise of the Commission’s functions under paragraph 15 of Part I of Schedule 1 to the said Act relating to particular species of livestock and the livestock products thereof.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1974 c. 3."
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      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1954 c. 42."
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